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 240 TKEATY WITH THE OSAGES. 1825. sidered as passing to the United States, and the accruing rents of the present year shall pass also. In testimony whereof, the said Commissioners, on the part of the United States, and the said William McIntosh and the Chiefs of the Creek nation, have hereunto set their hands and seals, at the Indian Springs, this fourteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-tive. DUNCAN G. CAMPBELL, JAMES MERIWETHER., U S. Commissioners. William McIntosh, Josiah Gray, Eetommee Tustunnuggee, Nehathlucco Hatehee, Tuskegoh Tustunnuggee, Alexander Lasley, Cowetau Tustunnuggee, William Canard. Col. Wm. Miller, Wrrxmssns rr nxrzcurrrozw, Wm. F. Hay, Secretary. Wm. Hambly, United States’ Interpreter. To the Indian names are subjoined a mark and seal. ARTICLES OF A TREATY, june2y1g2S_ Made and concluded at St. Louis, in the State ry Dlissouri, be- ·i, tween William Clark, Superintendent of Indian Afairs, Compwcgo, 1325] missioner, on the part of the United States, and the undersigned, Chiefs, Head-Men, and Warriors, of the Great and Little Osage Tribes rj brdians, duly authorized and empowered by their respective Tribes or Nations. IN order more etfectually to extend to said Tribes that protection of the Government so much desired by them, it is agreed as follows: ARTICLE 1. Cesshm by the The 'Great and Little Osage Tribes or Nations do, hereby, cede and g,,,ges_ relinquish, to the United States, all their right, title, interest, and claim, to lands lying within the State of Missouri and Territory of Arkansas, and to all lands lying West of the said State of Missouri and Territory of Arkansas, North and West of the Red River, South of the Kansas River, and East of a line to be drawn from the head sources of the Kansas, Southwardly through the Rock Saline, with such reservations, for such considerations, and upon such terms, as are hereinafter specilied, expressed, and provided for. ARTICLE 2. Tram of lm, Within the limits of the country, above ceded and relinquished, there ,8,,6,,,,,; {0, shall be reserved, to, and for, the Great and Little Osage Tribes or said Indians. Nations, aforesaid, so long as they may choose to occupy the same, the following described tract of land: beginning at a point due East of White Hair’s Village, and twenty-tive miles West of the Western boundary line of the State of Missouri, fronting on a North and South line, so as to leave ten miles North, and forty miles South, of the point of said beginning, and extending West, with the width of fifty miles, to the Western boundary of the lands hereby ceded and relinquished by